Improvement in end-gates for wagons



End-Gates for Wagons. 910.139.766. v PatentdJuneIJB.

Y a brace for the side boards.

UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

JESSE D. CAREY, OF MONICA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN END-GATES FOR WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,766, dated June 10,1873 application filed February 1s, 1era.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JESSE D. CAREY, of Monica, in the county of Peoriaand State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement ou my End-Gate forWagons, patented, De-

cember 31, 1872, No.1 34,358, to me by the United States, there fullydescribed, said description being here referred to and made part hereof;and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference -being had to the annexed drawings makinga part of this speciiication, in which like letters of reference referto like parts, and in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinalelevation of the cart o r wagon to which the endgate is attached; Fig.2, a rear elevation of the end-gate and cart or wagon, with ashoveling-board, q, movably hooked thereto; Fig. 3, plan of end-gatecatch or hook and its connections; Fig. 4, plan of lrear end of cart orwagon, intended merely to show the mode of mounting and swinging it uponthe hooks fr r.

This is an improvement on my former patent end-gate, as above referredto, and designed to yadapt said endgate to carts as V well as to wagons.The gate, as there described, was mounted and swung upon the usualcross-rod which connects the wagonsides. The improvement consists inaffixing a plate or strap of metal to the exterior face of the gate neareach upper corner, each strap terminating beyond its respective cornersin an eye which lits over and falls into the hollow of a hook, whichpoints upward and forward, aiixed to either side board, said eyes andhooks forming at once a hinge, and with the interlnediate gate and itseyes The gate, when closed, is retained by the spring-hooks on eitherside of the cart or wagon, which are disengaged by the lever and slidingconnections or rods attached to the lever.

The cart or wagon can be dumped without removing the gate, which latteralso acts as a brace for the sides.

A Arepresents the side boards of a cart or wagon. To each, at the upperrear corner, is attached a metal plate or strap, 9^', terminating in ahook, r, which projects far enough beyond the end of board to receiveone of the eyes, o, of the gate C, the hollow part of the hook beingupward and the point curved upward and forward; B, the bed, which, in awagon, 'mayterminate in two projections, t t, and two supports, s s', toreceive the edge ofthe shoveling-board q, which may be furtherhorizontally supported by` rods pp hooked to either side board; C, theendgate, which is of the same construction with that described in theaforesaid Letters Patent,

which are hereby referred to for a full description, except as to thehanging thereoft'. e., bymeans of the spring-hooks 'i i at each side ofthe vehicle, and their respective adjoining sliding bolts ordetaching-rods` lo k, operated by the lever D.

I will now describe the improvement by which the gate is made adaptableboth to carts as well as wagons, viz: A metal plate or strap, n n, isbolted or screwed to the surface of the gate at each upper corner so asto project, with a terminal vertical eye, o, beyond the respectivecorners, where they are slipped lover the hooks r r at each side of thevehicle, the points of which are directed upward and forward so astoretain the eyes o 0and the gate, which thus depends from these points,forming a brace to keep the sides from spreading under pressure of aload, without the inconvenience and incumbrance of the usual horizontalbracerod.

The operation of this improvement is as follows: This device is intendedmore particularly for carts or vehicles which can dump their loads, theusual brace-rod being obviated by constructing the gate, so as to lillthe place of the rod; at the same time the load can be dumped withoutremoving the gate, as the latter will swing outward even as far as to ahorizontal position, instantly relieving the vehicle of the load, andfall back to its fastenings immediately` when the vehicle is rightedJThe gate can, by raising it to a horizontal cached to the sides of thewagon-body, upon position, be removed from the vehicle by unwhich thegate swings, substantially in the shipping the eyes o o from theirrespective manner and for the purpose set forth.

hooks fr r. In testimony that I claim the foregoing im I do not claim apatent for the gate, but provement in end-gate I have hereunto set onlyfor the improvement by which the gate my hand this 7th day of February,1873.

can be adapted to carts as Well as Wagons. JESSE D. CAREY.

What I claim as my improvement is- Witnesses: The end-gate C havingstraps n n, with eyes HENRY W. WELLS,

o o to receive the hooks 1' 1' of the straps at- J AMES M. MORSE.

